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{"title":"Disabled student ambassadors promote inclusion in Norwegian higher education: building competencies and strategies for the future","authors":"Anita Blakstad Bjørnerås, Eli Langørgen, Aud Elisabeth Witsø, Lisbeth Kvam, Daniel Myhr, Jenny Marie Ragnhild Andersen, Gemma Goodall, Sissel Horghagen","doi":"10.1080/09687599.2023.2279490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2279490","url":null,"abstract":"Disabled students encounter complex barriers to participation and inclusion throughout higher education and face challenges transitioning into employment. This study has engaged eight disabled university students in participatory action research. The students, in collaboration with university researchers and staff, have developed and implemented actions at a Norwegian university. The study aimed to explore the students’ experiences of being ambassadors to promote inclusion. Data were generated through participatory observation with field notes during actions, sound recordings of reflection meetings, and a focus group dis­cussion. A reflexive thematic analysis resulted in the construction of four themes: confronting and overcoming the challenges, adding value and being a resource, building strategies to control stigma, and translating knowledge and actions towards inclusion. The results demonstrate the individual and societal value of including student voices to change for more inclusive practices, where disabled students are empowered and build competencies and strategies for the future.","PeriodicalId":48208,"journal":{"name":"Disability & Society","volume":"183 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135342294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Violence and disablist hate crime against people with intellectual disabilities: Czech NGOs and service providers’ experiences","authors":"Václav Walach, Benjamin Petruželka","doi":"10.1080/09687599.2023.2255731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2255731","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis study explores the relationship between intellectual disabilities and violent victimization, its reporting, and perceived priority in victim needs in criminal proceedings using data from a survey conducted among Czech organizations working with disabled people. The main aim is to find out whether there are differences between the organizations based on the type of disabilities they focus on. Pearson’s chi-squared, Fisher’s exact test and z-test were applied to determine the statistical differences. The results reveal that the organizations mainly focusing on people with intellectual disabilities reported more experiences with violent victimization, less experiences with reporting the most recent incident of disablist hate crime to police and emphasized more often the need for accompaniment and support during the filing of a crime report and taking other steps in criminal proceedings. The findings imply the need for more research and better targeted assistance for people with intellectual disabilities.Points of interestThis study adds to the still-limited knowledge on violent victimization and its reporting in people with intellectual disabilities, focusing on the under-explored context of East-Central Europe.People with intellectual disabilities are at risk of becoming victims of violence and facing barriers in the criminal justice system.Organizations working with people with intellectual disabilities reported more experiences with violence and disablist hate crime than other organizations.Employees of organizations working with people with intellectual disabilities encountered more violence against themselves or their colleagues because of their activities on behalf of disabled people.Organizations that mainly target people with intellectual disabilities reported lower rates of reporting of the most recent incident of disablist hate crime.Organizations that mainly target people with intellectual disabilities saw as more pressing the need to accompany and support people with disabilities in criminal proceedings.Keywords: Violenceviolent victimizationdisablist hate crimeintellectual disabilitiessocial service providersreporting Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the European Regional Development Fund Project ‘Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World’ [Grant No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000734].","PeriodicalId":48208,"journal":{"name":"Disability & Society","volume":"37 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135341919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The journey to work of young adults with mobility disability: a qualitative study on the digital technologies that support mobility","authors":"Carla Amaral, Marianella Chamorro-Koc, Amanda Beatson, Udo Gottlieb, Sven Tuzovic, Natalie Bowring","doi":"10.1080/09687599.2023.2275521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2275521","url":null,"abstract":"Mobility is essential in navigating familiar and unfamiliar environments. People with disability may experience vulnerability in navigating the external environment, when mobility is hindered by discomfort, commodification, or disorientation. Independent commute, choice, and control can be enhanced with appropriate aids, technology, and infrastructure. Self-determination can also be seen to enhance mobility through the realisation of strengths and limitations of the individual and the opportunity to act with self-regulation, in a way that responds to events in an empowered way. Utilising a critical incident technique, this qualitative study examines the enabling and disabling factors that impact self-determination of young adults with mobility disability in the context of their journey to work and explores the role digital technologies can play in this journey. Key findings related to the importance of mobility planning, transport options and communication in the journey to work are discussed. The importance of digital technologies is highlighted including the proposed features of digital enabling platforms.","PeriodicalId":48208,"journal":{"name":"Disability & Society","volume":"326 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135475447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Navigating a sighted world: visually impaired runners’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Jessica L. Macbeth, Ben Powis","doi":"10.1080/09687599.2023.2275517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2275517","url":null,"abstract":"During lockdown in March 2020, daily outdoor exercise was encouraged but little consideration was given to the feasibility of this for visually impaired (VI) people, for whom social distancing measures presented significant challenges. Drawing upon the concepts of ableism and ocularcentrism, this article explores VI peoples’ lived experiences of outdoor running (or not) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Eight VI runners participated in two semi-structured interviews during the pandemic. This longitudinal approach captured the impact of changing restrictions, personal circumstances, and seasons. Their running practices were shaped in complex and varied ways depending on impairment and impairment effects, local running environment, and support networks. Despite some commonalities, each personal story during this time was unique. Participants described empowering moments, juxtaposed with marginalising and oppressive situations. The UK Government’s encouragement of outdoor exercise was laden with ableist assumptions, and VI runners were significantly affected by the ocularcentric world they inhabit.","PeriodicalId":48208,"journal":{"name":"Disability & Society","volume":"13 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135480586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Troubling narratives about dis/ability and the social encounter through conversations between narrative inquiry, critical disability studies, and geographies of disability","authors":"Alex Cockain","doi":"10.1080/09687599.2023.2275523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2275523","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores written narratives produced by two ‘abled’ people about a social encounter, or event, with a ‘disabled’ person in an inland Chinese city. To interpret these, I draw upon principles and approaches associated with narrative inquiry, critical disability studies and geographies of disability. I identify the structural elements, sequentiality, and themes (e.g. fear, pity and especially anxiety, or perplexity) permeating these narratives as well as their lack of resolution, or closure. Later, I situate these narratives within wider discursive contexts albeit while emphasising how perplexity emerges through a lack of identity, or rupture, between words and the world. These troubling and perplexing narratives register the fragility of symbolic systems and the troubled subject positions these enable/disable. Nevertheless, and crucially, these narratives also trouble the taken-for-grantedness of ostensibly stable abled/disabled categories, persons, and objects, in ways which may permit realisation of things outside reductive hierarchical binaries.","PeriodicalId":48208,"journal":{"name":"Disability & Society","volume":"30 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135590219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Employment officers’ perceptions of job prospects for physically impaired people in China and Sweden","authors":"Yan Yang, Munir Dag, Christian Kullberg","doi":"10.1080/09687599.2023.2275516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2275516","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractIn this study, Chinese and Swedish employment officers’ assessments of physically impaired people and their ability to find jobs are compared. The study is qualitative, and data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The respondents were ten employment officers working full time. The results show that several employment officers in both contexts are skeptical that disabled people will be able to find work, and highlight similar obstacles to entering the labor market related to individual and societal conditions. The results show that, unlike Swedish employment officers, who highlight both types of obstacles, Chinese employment officers consider barriers related to the individual to be most important. The results also show that, compared to their Swedish colleagues, Chinese employment officers view gender and sex as more critical obstacles. The article argues that the results reveal different conceptions of disability and gender or sex that can be linked to the two contexts’ welfare models.Points of interestPrevious studies have rarely examined whether employment barriers for disabled people can be related to the functioning of the employment services.This article compares assessments made by employment officers in China and Sweden of disabled people and their ability to find jobs.This article reveals that employment officers in both countries to some extent negatively assess the employment prospects of women and disabled people, and it is argued that under some circumstances the employment services can function as a barrier for disabled people to get a job.This article shows that employment officers’ assessments differ depending on their perceptions of the applicants’ disability and sex, as well as if the officer works in Sweden or in China.This article argues that the employment officers’ expectations of disabled peoples’ ability to work are in line with the overarching goals of the welfare in the two countries.Keywords: Disabilityemployment officerassessmentgenderbiological sexwelfare state Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.","PeriodicalId":48208,"journal":{"name":"Disability & Society","volume":"20 24","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135972860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sometimes I just wish it was all over","authors":"Colin Cameron","doi":"10.1080/09687599.2023.2275525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2275525","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I reflect upon having recently been invited to join a new departmental group being set up to talk about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; at the same time having been told to remember that my perspective is just one among equally valid others. I reflect upon what Drake (1999) has described as the ‘fundamentally opposed’ natures of the medical and social models, and upon the absurdity involved in a requirement to give assent to both. I consider the unfortunate dualism involved in claims that people ‘have disabilities’, and suggest that Sartre’s dictum ‘existence precedes essence’ offers a way of thinking about disability that the medical model can’t begin to make sense of. I draw upon statements by disabled people about how they feel about themselves to challenge conventional personal tragedy assumptions.","PeriodicalId":48208,"journal":{"name":"Disability & Society","volume":"71 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135270933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Announcement of doctoral theses","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/09687599.2023.2261348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2261348","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48208,"journal":{"name":"Disability & Society","volume":"121 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135810221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Announcement of doctoral theses","authors":"Michelle King","doi":"10.1080/09687599.2023.2269662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2269662","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48208,"journal":{"name":"Disability & Society","volume":"118 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135810636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Protecting people with disabilities’ data privacy in government information disclosure: facilitation by procurator-led public-interest litigation","authors":"Fei Yang, Kaili Zheng, Yu Yao","doi":"10.1080/09687599.2023.2275518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2275518","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractImproper processing of sensitive personal data concerning disabled people in government information disclosure not only violates their privacy rights but also leads to discrimination, stigmatization, and other serious secondary harm, that have long been overlooked. China’s procurator-led public-interest litigation system is a powerful tool for protecting the privacy rights of vulnerable groups. This paper contends that procurator-led public-interest litigation, as a supplement to and support for private-interest litigation, assists the Chinese government in fulfilling its international obligations to protect the right to privacy of disabled people.Keywords: Right to privacygovernment information disclosurepublic-interest litigationdisabilitiesChina Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by National Social Science Fund of China under Grant [19CFX063].","PeriodicalId":48208,"journal":{"name":"Disability & Society","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136022993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}